A view of the Russian-controlled town of Severodonetsk in the eastern Lugansk region on January 24, 2023.
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Russia’s Defence Ministry on Saturday accused the Ukrainian Army of striking a hospital in the eastern Lugansk region, leaving 14 dead and injuring 24 others.
On Saturday morning in the town of Novoaidar, “the Ukrainian armed forces deliberately attacked the building of a district hospital with rockets of a US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system,” the Ministry said in a statement.
The Ministry added that 14 were killed and 24 wounded among the “hospital patients and medical staff”.